Area Catholics traveled to Hanover Park on Tuesday to show their devotion and pray for miracles during a visit by the Statue of Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos at St Ansgar Roman Catholic Church in Hanover Park adorned in a gold crown and a blue robe trimmed with gold stands about 20 inches tall and is encased in glass and metal is part of the pilgrim statue's tour of 12 parishes in five dioceses over five weeks The Blessed Mother’s Basilica in San Juan de los Lagos who come to reaffirm their faith and seek her intercession Revered by millions of Catholics across Mexico and Latin America it is the second most visited religious site in Mexico after the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City “A lot of people come here to ask her to pray for miracles,” said Esperanza Carreno Last year marked the 400th anniversary of the miraculous event that sparked the enduring devotion a family of circus performers traveling to Guadalajara in 1623 stopped in San Juan de los Lagos their young daughter tragically fell to her death from a trapeze asked an image of “La Cihualpilli” (“The Great Lady”) be brought to the girl It has become an annual tradition to host a replica of the image of the Virgin of San Juan de los Lagos in northern Illinois and Indiana diocese This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The National Guard found five decapitated bodies along a rural stretch of federal Highway 80 in the western state of Jalisco on Sunday morning after motorists alerted officials about “several bags that looked like human silhouettes,” the state prosecutor’s office reported The bodies of the five men were discovered on the side of the San Luis Potosí-San Juan de los Lagos highway local officers found another plastic bag containing the victims’ heads Durante un recorrido de la Guardia Nacional se encontraron bultos con los cuerpos de 5 víctimas en la carretera de Ojuelos, Jalisco. Información de Hirma Espinoza de los Monteros.#FórmulaNoticias con Juan Pablo Pérez-Díaz (@perezdiazmx). pic.twitter.com/bH74fbKIyu — Grupo Fórmula (@Radio_Formula) October 14, 2024 the unidentified victims were transported to the coroner’s office for autopsies No additional information had been made available as of Monday afternoon The decapitated bodies were found in the northeasternmost municipality of Ojuelos de Jalisco which borders the state of Zacatecas to the north and the municipality of Lagos de Moreno to the south The Jalisco highlands have been a hotbed of criminal activity in recent years The news agency Infobae reported that the region is the base of operations for the Grupo Élite Delictivo de Reacción Inmediata (Rapid Reaction Elite Criminal Group an armed faction of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) GEDDRI’s objective, according to Infobae, is to stave off advances from the rival Sinaloa Cartel The newspaper La Jornada reported that there was a shootout between the National Guard and armed civilians on Saturday afternoon in Lagos de Moreno during which the gunmen set six vehicles on fire Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro said two arrests were made and firemen were able to put out the flames and clear away the wreckage a few hours later In June, state officials increased the presence of local and federal security agents in northeastern Jalisco after a clash with armed civilians in Lagos de Moreno left one state prosecutor dead ADVERTISE WITH MND COMMUNITY GUIDELINES Subscription FAQ's Privacy Policy Mexico News Daily - Property of Tavana LLC A private nonprofit that helps find missing persons last week alerted Mexican authorities of a ranch located in Teuchitlán training and extermination center for the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) some of the findings that have been revealed suggest the ranch might have also been the gravesite of hundreds of people The discovery was made by members of Colectivo Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco who found burnt human remains hidden underground in a remote rural location 36 miles west of Guadalajara additional evidence found throughout the ranch suggests hundreds of people were killed there As Infobae Mexico reports an estimated 400 pairs of shoes and other personal items were found by volunteers at the Teuchitlán ranch members of the National Guard that visited the site also discovered a warehouse with dozens of clothing items Further investigations led authorities to find three cremation furnaces used by the CJNG Among some of the most disturbing items found during the search was a letter written by one of the victims that read: "My love I want you to remember how much I love you." After the letter was shared by Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco authorities were able to identify the author of the letter and confirmed that Nito had been missing for more than a year since disappearing in the San Juan de los Lagos region volunteers also found a notebook that contained multiple lists of surnames Members of Guerreros Buscadores Jalisco believe CJNG personnel gave each individual a surname so authorities would not be able to identify them a bible that contained three pictures of children was found by volunteers The Jalisco Prosecutor's Office has not shared a statement regarding the items found at the Teuchitlán ranch so far although Guerreros Buscadores Jalisco said that the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Missing Persons has already started an investigation Although news of the center created a huge commotion across Mexico it was not the first time authorities responded to a similar report in the region Just last month, federal law enforcement found another property in the rural town that was used by the Jalisco cartel for the same purposes authorities rescued 36 people that were being held against their will and arrested two others at the property Dozens of people said they were taken to the ranch against their will and were recruited and trained by the cartel This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project It was near dusk on a steamy Friday in late July The parking lot of the only major shopping center on San Antonio’s West Side was crowded with Mexican Americans awaiting the arrival from a small village in Jalisco 32-inch-tall statue made of sugar-cane fiber and clay Legend has it that in 1623 a six-year-old circus girl who died after falling from a trapeze onto a bed of machetes was brought back to life when a statue of the Virgin Mary was laid on her body Named for the village in which the miracle occurred the statue became known as the Virgin of San Juan de los Lagos It was soon in such demand that in 1636 the village priests commissioned local craftsmen to make two copies Though the original statue never leaves the shrine in Mexico where about 40,000 people a week go to pray for miracles or to thank the Virgin for miracles granted “the Pilgrim Virgins,” do occasional road tours The people in the crowd—many clutching letters of petition—didn’t seem to mind that the statue en route to the shopping center was not actually the one responsible for bringing the circus girl back to life Fidgeting at the foot of a portable stage was ten-year-old Roxanne Salas this year’s queen of San Juan de los Lagos Catholic Church Roxanne was scheduled to lead the procession the mile and a half from the shopping center to the church and she was eager to get on with her duties She tugged at the waistband of her floor-length lacy white dress Roxanne was queen because she and her king partner raised $5000—more money than any of the other children in the parish—to help bring the statue to San Antonio Standing in the heat of the late afternoon Roxanne was about to reap the rewards of months and months of fundraising—car washes even dressing up like Boy George and singing “Karma Chameleon” for the church talent show Costs ran approximately $60,000 to bring the statue “the Miracle Worker,” to San Antonio for ten days according to Belgian-born parish priest Father Hugo Van den Bussche Airfare from Mexico for Jorge Martínez (a layman whose job is to arrange appearances for the statue in the United States) Four security guards were on duty 24 hours a day at $10 an hour Producing and performing a nightly spectacular celebrating the virgin’s miracles cost $15,000 The parish also spent $20,000 for promotion and the services of a public relations consultant Many thousands more went toward food booths and around-the-clock lighting and air conditioning for the sanctuary is candid about the financial boost that is one of the blessings of La Milagrosa an estimated 300,000 people—roughly one third of the city’s population—visited the small West Side church to see the virgin and the church grossed $250,000 in offerings The second visit attracted only about half as many people Curiosity-seekers didn’t return; neither did some believers who paid off a lifetime’s worth of promises to the virgin during the first visit Father Hugo made no apologies for the hawking of $2 votive candles and an endless variety of religious trinkets and photographs Whatever we buy benefits not only this church but the whole neighborhood.” San Juan de los Lagos Catholic Church is one of the poorest parishes in the San Antonio archdiocese almost 35 per cent of the people in the immediate neighborhood live below the poverty line The two somber-looking priests from Jalisco got out of the car and presented the fifteen-pound statue to the crowd The doll-like figure could almost be part of the Madame Alexander series of dolls from different nations that little girls have been collecting for years with the slanted eyes and aquiline nose of an Aztec but the light flesh tone of a Spaniard On her head was a miniature version of a crown Queen Isabella might have worn La Milagrosa stood behind a crescent moon of silver The combination of Indian and Spaniard made her clearly Mexican The virgin’s serene face and hands were the oldest parts of the statue One of the most important gifts a believer can give the virgin is her hair which they later cut and present as offerings For a moment before the mariachis started up again and four nervous Catholic laymen carefully placed it on a platform and hoisted it above their heads “She’s almost like my real mother.” All along the route the faithful were waiting but most just stood in their yards and looked at the statue as it moved past as if in a state of suspended supplication A few people had permanent outdoor shrines in their yards with elaborate portraits of the Virgin of San Juan de los Lagos on display Several cultures were represented in the procession; while mariachis played at the front Indian dancers chanted ancient songs at the rear a dark-haired teenage girl was wearing a T-shirt that read “Virgin Tour 1985” in bold black and white letters on the back On the front of the girl’s T-shirt was a photograph of rock star Madonna an old Indian woman fingered rosary beads and whispered prayers as she moved through streets named Inca and Matthews Father Hugo climbed a stepladder and placed the statue on a platform about 25 feet above the floor People began flocking to the altar to fulfill mandas Some walked on their knees to the altar from the back of the church depending on what part of the body has been cured Still others brought photographs of their children or grandchildren where devotion to the Virgin of San Juan de los Lagos is one of many deeply rooted is not a neighborhood that outsiders enter or exit unintentionally and not on a natural route to better-traveled places It is also the part of town from which San Antonio draws its heightened sense of melodrama and its love of gladiator-style politicking and gaudy festivals Most of what happens there is invisible to the rest of the city and The phenomenon of the Virgin of San Juan de los Lagos is one example Generation after generation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans have venerated that manifestation of the Virgin Mary and the statue is as much a symbol of cultural identity and ethnic pride as of religious faith Devotion is passed on not through the official liturgy of the Catholic church but by word of mouth a 76-year-old matriarch of San Juan de los Lagos Catholic Church is typical of many West Side residents who came from Mexico and passed on their religious beliefs to their American-born children Martinez lives in a small aqua and white bungalow on San Fernando Street From the metal lawn chair on her front porch she can watch the children of the parish play on $5000 worth of playground equipment purchased with some of the proceeds from the statue’s 1984 visit to the parish Her family was part of an early wave of refugees who fled the political unrest inside Mexico in the early 1900’s; they were welcomed in Texas as laborers Martinez first heard about the Virgin of San Juan from her mother is especially popular among migrant workers and newly arrived immigrants Immigration and Naturalization officers had told Father Hugo that more than 50 per cent of the Mexican nationals who cross the border into Texas carry photographs of the virgin in their wallets Martinez was told about the virgin’s first miracle had nothing to do with a circus girl who was brought back to life One day long ago in an Indian village in the state of Jalisco a little girl was playing outside while her mother was working in the house The girl noticed some chickens stealing the family’s supply of corn The mother was furious because the chickens were also an important source of food for the family The little girl told her mother not to worry the girl was transformed into the Virgin of San Juan Martinez told the story while sitting on the edge of an easy chair beneath a tapestry of the Last Supper On another wall hung a portrait of President John Kennedy whose face was superimposed on an American flag once in Spanish and again in broken English had never heard the story before and tried not to laugh Martinez volunteered that it wasn’t the story about the chickens or the circus girl that made her believe in the miraculous powers of the Virgin of San Juan but her own experiences of answered prayers When she was fifteen she met her future husband “I was already big by then,” she recalled “I had been working in the fields a long time.” Their courtship lasted five years; during that time they were never allowed to be alone They were married in a Catholic church in San Marcos but soon came to San Antonio where Espiridión landed a job in the Kelly Air Force Base maintenance department They moved into what was then a two-room house on San Fernando Street and started having children Espiridión later became a janitor at the Municipal Auditorium in downtown San Antonio and worked there seventeen years until he retired Every summer on his vacation he went to the Valley and worked in the fields using the extra money to build more bedrooms onto their house In 1981 Espiridión died of liver cancer Martinez now lives on her husband’s Social Security pension of $396 a month I have asked the Blessed Mother for so many things,” Mrs “When my son Richard was in Korea and also in Viet Nam I promised that if she would bring him home safe I would make a pilgrimage to her shrine in Mexico When Richard came home he took me to see her When the children were sick I would buy milagritos and she would always heal them She has kept our family together and protected us from a lot of harm.” rector of San Fernando Cathedral in downtown San Antonio said that devotion to the Virgin Mary is one way that Mexicans and Mexican Americans had been able to keep alive the ancient Indian belief in female gods “The feminine deity was crucial in the Native American mind The Indian concept of spirituality was dualistic—feminine motherhood asking masculine fatherhood granting,” Father Elizondo said “I have contended that when the people show great devotion to the Blessed Mother either in the form of Our Lady of Guadalupe they are compensating for the Western world’s overemphasis on the masculine view of God.” Father Elizondo thinks that the strong show of devotion is also a way for Mexican Americans to leave their cultural imprint on Catholicism “What’s happening at San Juan de los Lagos Catholic Church and the other forms of popular piety is a radical call to simplicity ‘Don’t try to conventionalize us Learn from our experiences.’ It is the age-old voice of resistance.” Martinez’s daughter Virginia is married to a carpenter and has eleven children of her own Virginia does not believe that the statue itself somehow participates in miracles She also rejects her mother’s belief that Our Lady of San Juan takes revenge on people who fail to keep their promises “I have faith in the Blessed Mother,” Virginia said “but I also have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.” Still when Virginia suffered a fractured foot a few years ago she purchased a foot-shaped milagrito and prayed to Our Lady of San Juan for intercession “And God healed me because the Blessed Mother asked him to,” she said shares her mother’s less superstitious beliefs about the Virgin as a child Mary Jane rarely missed catechism classes or mass; she made her first Communion at the age of seven and she recited the rosary at home twice a day she never thought much about Our Lady of San Juan until April 1980 when she got an urgent call concerning her husband from a physician at Bexar County Hospital the hospital of last resort for San Antonio’s indigent population “When I got there the doctor told me that Floyd had encephalitis meningitis,” she recalled He explained that her husband had probably been bitten by a mosquito carrying the disease and told her that Floyd had little chance to live Mary Jane looked at the physician and snapped angrily You don’t know.” While Floyd was in the hospital Mary Jane never told her daughters that their father was seriously ill “I did ask the Blessed Mother to heal my husband and I made several promises to her,” Mary Jane said and Mary Jane kept her vows—she wore a certain T-shirt for two weeks she crawled down the center aisle of her church and she made more of an effort to get along with her in-laws the family’s fourth-generation believer in Our Lady of San Juan “I pray to her every night and every morning,” said Roxanne Father Hugo said that one of the reasons he arranged for the statue to be on display in his church was to fight the superstitions of the parishioners “The visits are beautiful teaching moments,” he explained In sermon after sermon the priest had told parishioners that the statue only represented the mother of God and it did not provoke miracles or disasters “We use these visits as an opportunity to explain the relationship between faith and miracles The miracles don’t happen because the people pray to the statue but because of the power of their own faith,” Father Hugo said “It is also a rare and beautiful opportunity for people who come looking for miracles to accept their own place in life They receive grace in order to accept whatever comes if you think what is going on here is not sincere devotion to the Blessed Mother just look at the faces of the people.” And all week the people came—at all hours of the day and night During the statue’s ten-day stay Mrs Martinez went to the church to visit Our Lady five times with her husband dead and her children grown and living on their own she doesn’t have as long or as specific a prayer list as she once had She prayed for peace and prosperity and left it at that Late in the afternoon on the final day of the statue’s visit Martinez walked across San Fernando Street past the twenty portable toilets in the church parking lot toward the outdoor patio where the despedida (“farewell mass”) was to be said She sat through the mass showing little expression The only time she smiled was when a group of young girls from the church danced down the aisle with flowers in their hair She listened as Father Juan Francisco Gutíerrez one of the priests who accompanied the statue from Mexico “This is a happy occasion because the love of the Blessed Mother is with us always.” Martinez was asked why she venerates the virgin She thought for almost a minute and then said and America never did anything for my husband she’s given our family so much.” Jan Jarboe is a columnist for the San Antonio Express-News Authorities in Jalisco disarmed the entire municipal police force of the city of San Juan de los Lagos on Monday due to suspicions of collusion with organized crime State security coordinator Macedonio Tamez Guajardo reported on Monday that the 160 officers were disarmed earlier that morning and were being transported to the state police academy where they will undergo training and loyalty tests National Guard and army troops are meanwhile carrying out security operations in San Juan de los Lagos located about 140 kilometers northeast of Guadalajara Tamez said that the government currently does not have concrete evidence to bring charges against any officers nor have any been dismissed from their posts but the decision to disarm them was based on credible intelligence reports The federal Attorney General’s Office currently has an open investigation into the force regarding the possible infiltration of organized crime into this force … enough to legally back up the intervention of the state government into the force,” he said The Jalisco government said that it does not rule out the possibility of such infiltration in other municipal police forces as federal intelligence teams currently have a number of investigations open in the state “With this we hope to return to peace and tranquility who added that similar interventions may be carried out elsewhere in Jalisco Source: El Universal (sp) Here we showcase the tastiest “T” bites from the streets of L.A eager to pump pesos into the local economy We're lucky: The region's cuisine can be tasted all 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during his act the grieving parents went to take their daughter to the chapel of Our Lady of San Juan for burial The wife of the caretaker of the chapel urged them to pray to the Virgin Mary When the dead child was placed by the statue she began to stir and emerged from her shroud unharmed Word spread about the miracle and devotion to the statue grew and remains widespread throughout Mexico and parts of the United States. 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Toyota Sienna to welcome the statue which had been brought all the way from Jalisco inside a gold-and-silver-colored glass box as others waited to lay their hands on the box The statue will spend the next four days inside the three churches that make up San Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio Parish the statue was carried to its first temporary home taking turns carrying the box on their shoulders Organizers said the “pilgrimage” to the church represented the journey people take from other countries to enter the United States Other marchers carried signs with Bible verses relevant to the mistreatment of some immigrants in the U.S Churchgoers march west in the 3400 block of West North Avenue in Humboldt Park carrying signs about the mistreatment some immigrants face when they enter the United States chronically ill kids being deported goes against every Christian principle,” said Rev Hays said church teachings defend the “dignity of the human person” and Catholics must apply that to immigrants 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The Día de Muertos festivities are also famous, partly because Aguascalientes is the birthplace of artist José Guadalupe Posada (one of my favorites) a renowned illustrator and lithographer known for his fashionably dressed Catrina as well as a series of calavera prints satirizing the ruling class a massive cathedral designed in a blend of baroque and neoclassical styles is a pilgrimage site for its Cristo Negro del Encino These reasons are enough to draw a student of Mexican culture such as myself to the city One of my best friends, Isidro Salas, lived there before moving to the States at six years old, and he wanted me to visit Aguascalientes with him. Armed with four pages of spreadsheets on where to eat, we were off, hungry for tacos de colores a regional torta called a bolillo con crema Scattered around the low dining counter are thick plastic red bowls filled with additional accompaniments, such as glistening green chiles, peppy salsas, cilantro, limes, and Mexican oregano. Unlike the corrugated cardboard taste of American supermarket oregano, the Mexican variety carries herbaceous flavor and aromatic bursts, intensified by rubbing the dried ingredient between your palms over the birria. The scent lingers on your hands for hours.  Isidro and I returned to El Lago Azul for a second visit the next day. Then we went on to El Laberinto, where the birria is roasted (tatemada in Spanish) for up to six hours at low temperatures. The preparation leaves the lamb with deeper flavor, a gaminess that might turn others off, but one that Isidro and I relished.  We ate more birria at Birrieria Pepe’s, in north Aguascalientes. It was also wonderful, but not as much as the plates of lamb we enjoyed at Mercado Juárez. The tacos at Las Planchitas, a chain specializing in what Americans would call beef quesabirria, were serviceable but nothing like the Aguascalientes-style birria at the Mercado.  The main threats are large hail, damaging wind gusts, and heavy rains with an isolated tornado also possible. 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Long before the new wave of gourmet trucks Raul Ortega started his old school taco truck in East Los Angeles: Mariscos Jalisco Kogi's chef recommends it and some customers drive for two hours to eat the avocado shrimp tacos — a recipe from Ortega's home town says he's confounded by food bloggers and trend watchers predicting the food trucks' demise Ortega and others in an association called the Loncheros Unidos are upset that some of the new food trucks seem to steal business from them and from established restaurants Ortega also worries the attention may prompt more police crackdowns and city regulations "They don't understand this kind of business," Ortega says of many new food truck owners Mariscos Jalisco competed against hipster trucks at the L.A Ortega had to tow his broken-down taco truck to the Rose Bowl location but he ended up winning "Best in Show" and the "People's Choice Award." "I don't consider myself gourmet," Ortega says He's been around for more than a decade and says it will be interesting to see which of the newbies remain when the food truck bubble in Los Angeles finally bursts Become an NPR sponsor Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.